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Cannes selections: the breakdown
Croisette regulars veterans Jean Luc Godard, Ken Loach and Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne will compete alongside Competition first-timers Alice Rohrwacher, Xavier Dolan and Damian Szifron at the Cannes Film Festival next month.
Cannes Film Festival 2014 line-up
The Official Selection for the 66th Cannes Film Festival has been unveiled in Paris.
Oliver Stone slams co-pros at Beijing
Oliver Stone was characteristically outspoken on the second day of the Beijing International Film Festival (BJIFF), challenging China to rethink international co-productions and start making films that examine its past.
Sundance
Sundance London shorts winners named
Russian Roulette wins Official Selection Award, to screen at fest.
Rotterdam
Rotterdam's Tigers go to Japan, Sweden, Korea
UPDATE: UPC Audience Award goes to Alexander Payne’s Nebraska. Festival’s second Big Screen Award to support Dutch distribution goes to Russia’s Another Year.
Berlin
Berlinale launches Talents Beirut
Berlinale Talents bolsters collaboration with the Arab world with inaugural programme of masterclasses and workshops in Beirut.
Cannes
Cannes selections: the breakdown
Croisette regulars veterans Jean Luc Godard, Ken Loach and Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne will compete alongside Competition first-timers Alice Rohrwacher, Xavier Dolan and Damian Szifron at the Cannes Film Festival next month.
Cannes Film Festival 2014 line-up
The Official Selection for the 66th Cannes Film Festival has been unveiled in Paris.
Cannes unveils shorts, Cinéfondation films
Abbas Kiarostami to head the Cinéfondation and Short Films jury.
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Zlotowski to lead Critics Week juries
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Party Girl to open Un Certain Regard
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Trapero to head Un Certain Regard jury
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Sony boards Cannes Critics’ Week prize
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Andrea Arnold to head Critics' Week jury
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Cinéfondation's Atelier unveils 15 films
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Kiarostami to lead Cannes short jury
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Gallimard launches adaptation drive
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Cannes Critics' Week launches initiative
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Cannes awards brought forward
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Grace of Monaco to open Cannes
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Lescure named Cannes president
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Jane Campion to head Cannes jury
AFM
Metrodome acquires Attila Marcel
EXCLUSIVE: UK distributor also secures Big Sur, We Gotta Get Out Of This Place, Almost Human, Enter Nowhere and The Battery.
Venice
Venice hosts Italian films in Croatia
The Venice Biennale is launching the first Venice in Zagreb programme, which will show 7 Italian films from the 2013 Venice Film Festival in the Croatian capital.
Venice Days gets competitive
EXCLUSIVE: Parallel Venice section also planning out-of-festival activities to build new audiences for independent cinema.
Venice confirms 2014 dates
The Venice Film Festival has confirmed its 2014 dates as August 27 to September 6.
Venice selects 12 for filmmaking scheme
A total of 12 projects have been selected for the second edition of Venice filmmaking scheme, the Biennale College - Cinema, a programme for training young filmmakers and producing micro-budget films.
Metrodome gets Miss Violence
EXCLUSIVE: UK distributor takes Elle Driver’s provocative, award-winning Venice drama.
Venice best director Pasolini talks new projects
UPDATED & EXCLUSIVE: Beta closes a number of key deals on Venice award-winner Still Life.
Reel Suspects comes to Ruin
Matteo Lovadina’s Reel Suspects has picked up international rights on Venice Orizzonti special jury prize winner Ruin.
Sacro GRA surprise Venice winner
Surprise choice for Golden Lion is Italian documentary. Silver Lion for best director goes to Alexandros Avranas for Miss Violence.
Toronto
Hong Kong
HKIFF, Busan, Tokyo expand Academy
The Asian Film Awards Academy (AFAA) celebrated its inauguration last night (March 23) with Moet-AFA Special Award Rising Star of Asia awardees Chiaki Kuriyama and Kim Nam-gil.
Aberdeen, Midnight After to open HKIFF
Pang Ho-cheung’s Aberdeen and Fruit Chan’s The Midnight After will open this year’s Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF), which takes place March 24-April 7.
HKIFF to premiere Better Tomorrow
The Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF) will screen the world premiere of Adam Wong’s ICAC Investigators 2014 - Better Tomorrow, which has Dante Lam on board as consultant director, on March 26.
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Hellenic Film Academy Awards
Fifth edition of the awards saw Pantelis Voulgaris’ Little England win best film, while Yiorgos Tsemberopoulos won best director for The Enemy Within.
